Harnessing the Power of Internet: E-Card Warns, "Get Checked"

Public health officials have looked for ways to utilize the internet to conduct safe-sex education and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease, and inSpot, an on-line service that allows a sender to...

NBC to Stream Olympics Live on Web

"NEW YORK Olympics fans will have a bevy of opportunities to get content from NBC Universal next month -- 2,200 hours of live online coverage, live events on their mobile phone and even a way to download coverage...

Rise in sex infection rates blamed on young people

This is really depressing news. After all the deaths associated with HIV the message around how important it is to wear condoms or not have casual sex is clearly not getting through."Professor Peter Borriello, the...

British Shin Kicking Championship

"The crowd that assembled on Dover’s Hill near Chipping Campden last Friday weren’t in the Cotswolds for views of the rolling countryside.They came instead for scenic pleasures of sheer, shinbone-shattering violence that forms part of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.To the...

Lonely Planet rebuts 'fake' claim

Lonely Planet are insisting their travel books are accurate, after reports have emerged that one of its former writers addmitted he made up parts of his travel guides."Author Thomas Kohnstamm said he had accepted...

NPD Reports Nintendos Solid US Sales For February

"The latest video game industry sales figures reported by the independent NPD Group show that Nintendo DS™ and Wii™ topped the U.S. charts for February. Nintendo DS sold nearly 587,600 units and Wii sold nearly 432,000. “Our momentum has not let up since the holidays...

How to choose Sexy Hosiery for Work

If you are a business professional, you understand that your work attire is a mirror reflection of your inner personality. What you wear to your job is one of the most positive attributes you have to offer of yourself towards your career aside of the actual work you do day...

New York Restaurants Must Post Calorie Counts

After banning transfats and smoking from New York city bars and restaurants, posting menu nutrition information doesn't seem like it should cause such a huge fuss, but it is being resisted by the fast food...

Women 'want no-strings sex'

"Two young women researchers are calling for a new form of sexual ethics that would allow women to have casual sex without feeling that they're "sluts"."

QUAY 16 - NEW FLOATING RESTAURANT ON THE LIFFEY

"Floating restaurant and bar opens in Dublin Docklands The Cill Airne, Dublin Dockland's very first floating bar and restaurant, is now open for business, just in time for the busy Christmas period. The historic...

New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) To Pay $10,000 Compen...

"The Employment Relations Authority has ordered ACC to pay almost $10,000 to a woman who was unfairly dismissed, after she and other staff had been targeted in abusive emails. Georgia Choveaux was hired by the Wellington office in August 2004 on a casual contract. She was to...

Leonard Lauder Battling To Preserve World War Two Booty

"It started with a casual flip through an art book and is likely to end, 15 years later, in a courtroom with the billionaire philanthropist Leonard Lauder, scion of the Estee Lauder cosmetics empire, battling to keep a painting allegedly looted by the Nazis during the Second...

Garbage Delight

 As someone who delights in 'shopping' at the dump or the scrap metal yard, this Herald editorial rang a big bell for me.  I am continually amazed at what people throw away and have gained a perhaps questionable reputation as a 'collector' of 'things'.  This...

U.S. teenagers: news sucks

salinger title girl is number 1.  Did you know that?  This is the top of "search trends"  that Google Labs will let us see. Anybody know about this story?According to Google Labs, its Hot Trends...

"Manhunt 2" Banned in the UK

Not a good week for video games in the UK. I predict an appeal from Rockstar games on this one: Ultimately a video game like the one described below not meant for impressionable minds, whatever that may mean*,...

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